Abergavenny Junction railway station

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Abergavenny Junction

Location

Location

Wales

Area

Monmouthshire

Operations

Original company

West Midlands Railway/L&NWR then LNWR / GWR Joint

Post-grouping

London, Midland and Scottish Railway and Great Western Railway

Platforms

History

1 October 1862

First station opens

20 June 1870

First station closes

20 June 1870

Second station opens

9 June 1958

Second station closes

Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom

Closed railway stations in Britain
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Abergavenny Junction railway station served the village of Abergavenny in Wales. At the junction of lines run by two different railway companies, the station was moved 500 metres north within eight years of opening.

1 History
2 External links
3 The site today
4 References

[edit] History

Opened by the West Midlands Railway, the station became the GWR / LNWR border when the latter took over the Merthyr Tredegar and Abergavenny Railway for financial reasons and to expand into Wales.. Therefore it became a partly London, Midland and Scottish Railway and Great Western Railway station during the Grouping of 1923. Passing on to the Western Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948, it was then closed by the British Transport Commission.

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[edit] The site today

The station was sited near the point where the Beacons Way footpath crosses the A465 road. Trains on the former Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway, now known as the Welsh Marches Line, pass the site. Although the former Merthyr, Tredegar and Abergavenny Railway line closed, and has been partly built over, its route through the town and the shape of the triangular junction south of the station site can still be seen in aerial photographs.

Abergavenny railway station, to the south of the junction site, is still served by trains on the Welsh Marches Line.

[edit] References

R.V.J.Butt, (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1 85260 508 1

A. Jowett, (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas. Atlantic Publishing. ISBN 0 906899 99 0

Railscot Merthyr_Tredegar_and_Abergavenny_Railway [1]

Railscot Newport_Abergavenny_and_Hereford_Railway [2]

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Junction		London and North Western Railway Merthyr, Tredegar and Abergavenny Railway		Abergavenny Brecon Road
Llanvihangel		Great Western Railway Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway		Penpergwm